... many w'ho have tried both workhouse and prison, and prefer prison; and also by comparison of the respective dietaries of the workhouse and the gaol, and the work exacted from the two descriptions of unfortunates. The workhouse of London stands urgently ...

... Gray's-inn-road workhouse was again re- ferred to.-Mr. Goode said it was not so much the fault of the cooking that.the Irish'stew was complained of, but on ac- couutof the stinking meatandrotten pota. tdesused.-lfr. Nunn said he, visited the workhouse last week ...

... donor for the little inmates of workhouses and hospitals. AU Londoners will feel the happier for knowing that Santa Claus svill go the round of the siek wards of the infirmary and the hosnital, the dormitories of the workhouse and the orphanage, and that ...

... inquire into the truth of a report respecting the master of the workhouse having refused a poor man to see his wife when laid upon her death-bed. The parties were both intimates of the workhouse. The man's name is William Dogget, once a maun in respectable ...

... these, sir, are the men who, with unblushing effrontery, have declared the St Paucras workhouse, under its present system of management, as being the model workhouse of the kingdom. Should the truth of these statements be doubted, I have only to say that ...

... he moved that no entertainment of any kind be given in future in the workhouse without the sanction of the board, and referred incidentally to the recent disaster at Holloway workhouse, where a gallery collapsed during an entertainment. Mr LONDON pointed ...

... :AN' EXIBITION OF LEGAL TEETH, A remarkable scene was witnessed at an inquest on Saturday evening, at the Eastbourne Workhouse, held by the Bmst Suiex Coroner (Mr. George Hillian), on the body of John Deadman, a homeless labourer, who bad been sleeping ...

... Union considered in four phases : in relation to the method of administering relief; the manner which tho workhouse was kept; the dietary of the workhouse and the mode in which the books of the Union were kept. The enormous amount of abuses found to prevail ...

... Blackheath. 3 A NOvEL WORKHOUSE TEST.-ST. PANCRASi B WORKHOUSE E MD TiE LANCAaSmE RELIEF FUND.-A , movement of sympathy for the distress in Lancashire has been commenced in the parish of St. Pancras. The inmates Yof a workhouse, themselves the recipients ...

... that witness walked with him to the workhouse. On the way there he fell from exhaustion. Witness instantly called as- sistance, a stretcher was sent for, and the man, who was then dying, was carried to the workhouse in- firsmary. He said that he was dying ...

... relative to the workhouse system in Ireland. : We published on Monday a sketob, by an able hand, orthe Cork workhouse, ad tha utmdne Imptove. ment effected by a good system of indoor work. The account which we gave of the Cork' workhouse is strongly contrasted ...

... visit by the president, Mr. Dodson, I to the workhouses of the locality, decided that the gaar- dians of the Holborn Union must forthwith commence, in at a cost of 100,00W., the erection of a new workhouse )n at Upton for the accommodation of the poor ...